Re: FF layer restrictions [Was: [PATCH 1/1] Input: add sensable phantom driver]

["Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On 3/14/07, STenyaK (Bruno González) <stenyak@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 3/14/07, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Do we have any idea if there any users of FF out there?
> > >
> > > At least me :). I'm using it for wheel and joystick in modules for
> locally
> > > developped multiplatform virtual reality system.
> >
> > Wine and BZflag come to mind, though I think the support is quite
> > limited in both.
> >
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> There's also vDrift (racing sim), they added support very recently.
> I plan to add it in my car sim too, but there's still nothing coded.
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> I have a question: if the force is to be 3D, why only 3 possible values?
> What would they be, 3 torques or 3 forces? In the case of car sims (ff
> steering wheels), only one axis of torque is usually used (except for 6 dof
> platforms, as mentioned).
>

I wonder if we could somehow extend or augment FF envelope se we could
specify a plane for the effect.. Then a vector could be represented by
a sum 3 constant effects in 3 separate planes and we could also use
spring and other effects as well.

> By the way, is this the correct list for asking trivial questions (such as
> questions about how the ff api works), or is it only for development of
> kernel?

Since it is kernel-provided API linux-input list should be fine and I
think linux-kernel as well.

-- 
Dmitry